What is expressive art?
In short: deep inquiry through intentional art practice…
This type of artmaking process is a hands-on approach to direct sensing, internal observation, deep inquiry, and self-reflection.
It’s a non-linear, non-verbal process. Participants create from the heart and body-mind, responding to guided meditations, prompts and questions. This process allows people to investigate what is within, rather than attempting to render what they see outside themselves visually, physically. It’s about giving form to what we know, rather than trying to duplicate how our mind thinks things are.
This type of artmaking is how I myself process, investigate, and work through the issues of my life. It is how I make meaning out of what is happening in my world, and the world around me.
What can conscious art practice offer?
Change occurs, shift happens, and it’s fun… Shift happens when art is made this way. Change occurs, directly as a result of engaging in conscious creative practices. In short, it works.
How can I explore Conscious Creative Practices with Margaret Lindsey?
Margaret offers Expressive Art Workshops, Conscious Creativity Events and meditations, Creativity Retreats, one-on-on creative mentoring, group in-services, and custom events and ceremonies.
Why do this?
Engaging authentically and consistently with conscious creative practice can illuminate or shift whatever is being creatively investigated or explored:
• Current or past psychological states
• Patterns and sub-conscious stories sourced in family/culture of origin
• Healing or information about their body
• Insight into current relationships
• Information or shifts in past traumas
• Intuitive knowledge of the archetypal meaning of a symbol, often from another or unknown culture’s mythology
• a new personal relationship to artmaking or to specific media
• key insights into one’s own personality
• tracking a personality trait or series of experiences from childhood onward--connecting the dots.
• build a newfound or deeper connection with the symbolic meaning within and behind all manifest life
• Insight into the spirit of another creature, place or thing
“I knew there was something inside of me longing to be expressed but unsure what it was or where to start or how to start. I felt totally hopeless and helpless. With Margaret’s guidance I cried, I allowed the suffering I was feeling to come through me by ripping, cutting, poking, stamping, sewing, hammering. She helped me realize it didn't need to be pretty, it needed to be honest, no matter what it looked like.”
— artist Joan Kirkaldie